San Josef Bay

San Josef Bay (50˚39'00" 128˚19'00" At the NW end of Vancouver I, W of the head of Holberg Inlet). The name initially appears on the 1793 chart of Spanish naval officer Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano. Capt James Hanna, who made the first fur-trading visit to the PNW in 1785, called it St Patrick’s Bay on his second trip, in 1786. On his chart, Hanna also labelled the river that flows into San Josef Bay—known today as the San Josef R—as the Parry R. James Strange, another British fur trader...

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